Part Chinese Western, part black comedy and one part war movie, the martial arts infused action-packed An Inaccurate Memoir (re-badged for the Us market as Eastern Bandits) debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD from Well Go USA Entertainment. Bandits is directed by Yang Shu-peng (The Robbers) and stars Huang Xiaoming (Ip Man 2, The Guillotines), Zhang Yi (Beginning of the Great Revival, Caught in the Web), Zhang Xinyi (Love is Not Blind, Lost on a Journey) and newcomer Ni Jingyang. The date to put pick up this little gem? It debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD & Digital May 27th. Synopsis: The heroic story of rebels with a fortune to gain, and everything to lose. Leader Fang Youwang (Huang Xiaoming), with his compatriots Kuei, San Pao, and Lady Dagger - lead a posse of roving bandits that are fearless, enterprising, and loyal to the death. Their baby-faced masks make them terrifying; their underground lair untraceable.
- 3/27/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Here's the trailer for an upcoming Chinese film called An Inaccurate Memoir, which features a group of characters wearing big masks and shooting big guns, explosions, and a girl showing her sword fighting skills. It sure looks like a lot of fun. The film is directed by Yang Shupeng and stars Huang Xiaoming (IP Man 2, The Message), Zhang Yi and Zhang Xinyi. Synopsis: A group of bandits led by Fang (Huang Xiaoming) and his sister (Zhang Xinyi) sets out to kidnap a rich groom (Zhang Yi) who has a secret identity. An Inaccurate Memoir will hit Chinese cinemas on April 28. ...
- 3/29/2012
- Screen Anarchy
All efforts to find a proper synopsis for this promising Chinese actioner have failed. My investigation yielded incredibly weak results; one site says the film is about gangsters who are attempting to kidnap a “groom”, while the other claims its about bandits who try to pass themselves off as ordinary people. So here’s my theory: the flick follows the adventures of several badass bandits who plot to kidnap a person of influence by disguising themselves as law-abiding citizens. A reasonable deduction, I think. Truthfully, story is completely secondary at this point. The trailer features, sex, violence, girls with swords, people in masks, and a fair amount of gunplay. If it’s all put together in a stylish, cohesive manner, that’s all that matters. Because I’m cinematically shallow, and I really don’t care. “An Inaccurate Memoir” stars Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Yi, Zhang Xinyi, Ni Jingyang, Wang Lie,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
The Flowers of War
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Screenplay by Heng Liu
China, 2011
A select few of China’s most revered filmmakers have, at given moments in their careers, chosen to make headway in the English-language cinema landscape, their sights aimed more specifically at the United States and Hollywood. John Woo’s stint was less than memorable, with Face/Off being his most successful attempt (and few would argue that it is any better than what he made in Hong Kong either before or after his American career). Wong Kar Wai, after making a name for himself with nearly 20 years of great films, headed West as well to make My Blueberry Nights with mixed results to say the least. Zhang Yimou, known mostly for his wuxia-style epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers, does not go to quite the same lengths, preferring to keep his latest film set in China,...
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Screenplay by Heng Liu
China, 2011
A select few of China’s most revered filmmakers have, at given moments in their careers, chosen to make headway in the English-language cinema landscape, their sights aimed more specifically at the United States and Hollywood. John Woo’s stint was less than memorable, with Face/Off being his most successful attempt (and few would argue that it is any better than what he made in Hong Kong either before or after his American career). Wong Kar Wai, after making a name for himself with nearly 20 years of great films, headed West as well to make My Blueberry Nights with mixed results to say the least. Zhang Yimou, known mostly for his wuxia-style epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers, does not go to quite the same lengths, preferring to keep his latest film set in China,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – In our latest foreign-language edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the Golden Globe-nominated foreign-language film “The Flowers of War” starring Christian Bale from the director of “Hero”!
“The Flowers of War” from director Yimou Zhang also stars Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe, Dawei Tong, Tianyuan Huang, Bai Xue, Takashi Yamanaka, Shawn Dou, Kefan Cao and Hai-Bo Huang from writer Heng Liu based on the novel by Geling Yan. The film opens in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2012.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Flowers of War” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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“The Flowers of War” from director Yimou Zhang also stars Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe, Dawei Tong, Tianyuan Huang, Bai Xue, Takashi Yamanaka, Shawn Dou, Kefan Cao and Hai-Bo Huang from writer Heng Liu based on the novel by Geling Yan. The film opens in Chicago on Jan. 20, 2012.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Flowers of War” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
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- 1/14/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The latest feature from internationally heralded Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, The Flowers of War, is not a tale of soldiers and strategies, but rather of the women and children caught in the crossfire of war. Based on Geling Yan’s novel The Thirteen Flowers of War, this sweeping historical drama is set amidst the horrific backdrop of the Rape of Nanjing, the six-week period in which the Japanese invaded Nanjing, China, and killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians, then–as the weeks drew on–raped the survivors. Yimou, who has created such visually stunning features as House of Flying Daggers and Ju Dou, does not shy away from the brutal realities of this heinous moment in history. The film’s violence is unrelenting and yet beautiful, punctuated with the bold colors for which Yimou is known. For example, when a war-torn building is blown sky high, amid the gore and dust,...
- 12/16/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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